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New Baseball Scoring Guaranteed Fun for Youth

posted on September 6, 2018 in Baseball Tips by Jack Perconte

New Baseball Scoring NBA Scoring System for Practice Games Baseball Scoring Real Slug fests It is fun when kids go home and tell their moms and dads that they won their baseball scrimmage game today 96 to 89, more like an NBA game than a baseball game. In an effort to spice up baseball practice, coaches can change up the baseball scoring with this NBA style baseball scoring.

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Thank You Mike Schmidt - But, Will Anybody Listen

posted on September 6, 2018 in Coaches Corner, Jack's Corner, Opinion Pieces by Jack Perconte

Mike Schmidt: Will they Listen to a Hall of Famer

My new "go to" line with my hitting students is "Try it, you may end up with a homerun." Thank You, Mike Schmidt

Hall of Famer, Mike Schmidt just came out with an article on postseason hitting and the state of hitting in general. Mike Schmidt knows hitting and I feel it validates much of what I teach, but will anything change.

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Game Planning - 10 Questions to Ask Before Break

posted on September 6, 2018 in by Jack Perconte

Game Planning before Tossing the Spikes Aside for a Necessary Break

All baseball players' goal is consistency in all phases of the game and over the course of the season. Objective analysis helps that plan for consistency and for developing the necessary game planning for the following season.

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Hitting Drill for Baseball that Separates Good Hitters from So-so Hitters

posted on September 6, 2018 in Hitting Tips by Jack Perconte

Hitting Drill for Baseball, of Which Few Hitting Drills are Better

So many hitting drills exist, but few tell a story like this one does, as it requires batters to wait for pitches, have great focus, have a compact swing, and most important, keep their hands back. Additionally, this hitting drill for baseball gives coaches a clear view of players' hitting tendencies and hitting flaws.

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Best Baseball Coaching Method - Stop, Look, & Check Batting Practices

posted on September 6, 2018 in Coaches Corner, Strategies by Jack Perconte

Best Baseball Coaching Method Available to Coaches

A good way to coach youth baseball players is with this stop, look, and check baseball coaching method. This may seem to be a time consuming and tedious process, and it is, initially, but the benefits far outweigh the extra time, and kids learn much faster with this baseball coaching method. So often, what players think they are doing and what they are doing are different, and the only way they know if their batting fundamentals are correct is by stopping, looking, and checking what is going on.

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Best Baseball Coaching Method - Stop, Look, & Check Batting Practices

posted on September 6, 2018 in Coaches Corner, Strategies by Jack Perconte

Best Baseball Coaching Method Available to Coaches

A good way to coach youth baseball players is with this stop, look, and check baseball coaching method. This may seem to be a time consuming and tedious process, and it is, initially, but the benefits far outweigh the extra time, and kids learn much faster with this baseball coaching method. So often, what players think they are doing and what they are doing are different, and the only way they know if their batting fundamentals are correct is by stopping, looking, and checking what is going on.

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Show and Tell Baseball Coaching Technique

posted on September 6, 2018 in Coaches Corner, Strategies by Jack Perconte

I wish my coaches had used the show and tell baseball coaching technique when I was playing baseball, as the knowledge of how and why I was doing baseball skills would have helped me make necessary adjustments, when things were not going so well. If I only knew then what I know now a coach's constant lament. It is difficult for coaches to know what ballplayers are really learning.

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